From: Mike Houghton <mike_k_houghton@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T02:16:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading Question -- sorry


I tried Vincent's idea of having an independant class and setting the 
thread in a start method. i.e.

class Timer

  def initialize( period, count, &action )

    @period = period
    @count  = count
    @action = action

  end #initialize

  def start

   Thread.new do
      @count.times do
        @action.call
        #sleep(@period)
      end #do
    end #do


  end #start


end #class Timer

timer = Timer.new( 1,5){puts "x"}
timer.start

This works, but if the sleep(@period) is un-commented it only prints "x" 
once. If the sleep line is placed before @action.call then "x" is not 
printed at all. I've looked at the documentation for sleep but found no 
clues.

Thanks

Mike

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